A Wal-Mart employee in Canada snapped a pretty interesting picture for us to see. It is a picture of pricing for the HTC Desire on TELUS with no contract. The price is an amazing $448.83 Canadian ($435.31 for us in the U.S.). That is one killer price for an Android device with the specs as the Desire.
Still no word on availability yet and as you can see in the photo no current stock. This does confirm that it is coming soon though so get your wallets ready you time is near.
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Like manufacturer, like carrier… that is how the old saying goes, right? Well, either way, Bell Canada has decided that Samsung has the right idea, and is now offering a free Samsung Vibrant every day until August 6th. Entry is simple: just sign up over at Bell Canada’s registration page (Canadians only?), and then sit back, relax, and cross your fingers.
[via Bell Canada]
In yet another move by Samsung to have it’s Galaxy S line take over the universe, it looks like Rogers Canada will be getting the device this September. They will be the second Canadian carrier to announce that they will receive the Galaxy S, the first being Bell Wireless. Although Bell took in Samsung’s new toy as the Vibrant, it’s still in the same family.
Although there is yet to be any word as to which version of the Galaxy S Rogers will be getting, but considering they are also a 3G carrier, a rebranded version of AT&T’s Captivate sounds like a promising guess.
[via Android Headlines]
Canadian cellular provider TELUS has been tempting its customers with little details on the upcoming HTC Desire release. They have been sketchy on the details especially when it will launch and for how much. They recently placed up a landing page for the device and some sly little sleuths were able to uncover a bit of info for us. According to the web site code for the page there are three prices shown. First is $499.95 for a one year contract, $399.95 for a two year contract, and $299.95 for a three year contract.
Now before you start getting all puffed up this is probably just a place holder for the pricing. Realistically the prices should be much lowers so we will just have to wait and see. At least this brings us closer to getting what we “Desire” 
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Telus, one of the leading carriers in the frozen tundra also known as Canada, announced today that they’ll be getting the HTC Desire and that it’ll be part of their back-to-school group of phones. In case you don’t know, the Desire is essentially a Nexus One with physical buttons, an optical trackpad instead of a trackball, and SenseUI. Other than that, the specs are identical:
This is also good news for USA-residing people who have been drooling over the HTC Desire, but didn’t want to switch to US Cellular or deal with 2G only from a imported Euro version. This phone will match up nicely with your AT&T sim. Of course I’m not sure if the physical buttons and no Froyo would sway me from just purchasing a Nexus One, I’ll leave that choice up to you.
[via telus]
Obviously this isn’t a firm release date, but look for one right around the end of summer.
Today, those who dwell in Canada rejoice. Virgin Mobile has let the metaphorical cat out of the bag with the unveiling of the Legend by HTC.
The HTC Legend uses the widly used HTC Sense and will sport Android 2.1. Made of aluminum, this Legend houses a 600MHz Qualcomm processor, an AMOLED screen and a 5 megapixel camera with LED flash. The battery is rated at 1300mAh with eight to ten hours of talk time.
[via engadget]